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1 week ago | thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan

Chesterfield fans have suffered play-off heartbreak far too often throughout the club’s history. Firstly in 1990, when Dion Dublin scored the only goal of the game for Cambridge United to secure promotion from the Fourth Division, and more recently in 2015, when a 4-0 defeat to Preston North End ended the club’s hopes of back-to-back promotions. There were then three consecutive failed campaigns in the National League, which ultimately preceded the 2023/24 title-winning season.

1 week ago | thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan

Shoaib Bashir fought off his critics to spin England to an innings victory over Zimbabwe in the first Test of the home summer. The 21-year-old off-spinner took second-innings figures of 6/81 as the travelling side fell to an innings and 45-run defeat in their first match on English soil for 22 years.

3 weeks ago | thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan

Indian cricketing legend Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from Test cricket at the age of 36. The former captain follows his successor, Rohit Sharma, who also bowed out from the longest format five days ago, in stepping away from the team shortly before their five-match series in England this summer. Kohli played 123 Tests and scored 9,230 runs, making him the fourth-highest-scoring Indian in the game’s history, before confirming his decision to retire in an Instagram post.

2 months ago | thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan

Yorkshire batter Harry Brook has been named as England’s new ODI and T20 captain, replacing Jos Buttler, who resigned after the dismal Champions Trophy display. The 26-year-old had been Buttler’s deputy and skippered the side in their autumn 50-over series against Australia at home, which they lost 3-2. The announcement comes over five weeks since Buttler’s resignation and puts an end to rumours that Test captain Ben Stokes would be taking over in the 50-over format.

2 months ago | thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan

The 2025 English county cricket season begins on 4 April when 18 counties will play across Divisions One and Two of the Rothesay County Championship. Lancashire will be one of the biggest teams playing in the second tier after relegation in 2024 and will face Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Leicestershire,  Northamptonshire, Middlesex and Kent. Head coach Dale Benkenstein will desperately need his side to return to Division One after an extremely disappointing season.